Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed Tidewater region, haze shimmered blue over sparkling crystal estuaries. In the west, the beech's first gold and the oak's first russet welcomed autumn from the Appalachian crests. In the tangled Wilderness, dusk cast early purple shadows round Lindsay Almond's family farm land...
Ezra Taft Benson, once a Republican hairshirt, is now generally regarded as a true prophet because he has consistently tried to bring some sense to the chaotic farm-subsidy program...
...kind of U.S. that the Democrats were dreaming about just a year ago could hardly have voted any other way than Democratic in the 1958 elections. It was a U.S. of recession, rising unemployment, farm poverty, militant unionism, weakened defenses-with executive decisions dominated by Congress and civil rights questions compromised smoothly in the Lyndon Johnson manner. But the big news of politics as the fall campaign opens is that the U.S. of autumn 1958 is not quite the land of Democratic dreams. Items...
...Farm Prices. Thanks to lean years, the Democrats have made serious inroads into the state houses and congressional districts of the traditionally Republican Midwest. But 1958 has blessed farmers with bounteous crops-and hiked farm income 22% above last year. Agriculture Secretary...
...provide the people of Colombia with more and better food as economically as possible?" The foundation sent in experts, the Colombian government handed over top-grade land and the search started. At first Tibaitata concentrated on wheat and corn, has since branched into potatoes, beans, forage crops, barley, farm administration, pathology, entomology, animal husbandry...